Posts by phuzz 6735 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Feb 2010
Clearly the solution is to use core-rope memory. If it was good enough for Apollo...
The only downside is that enough memory to store an encryption key would probably take up more room than the Pi.
I assume this is why most UK banks seem to insist on both a password and "memorable information", which as far as I can tell is basically another password, but you're only asked for certain characters. Which implies to me that the memorable information isn't hashed, and presumably must be stored using some kind of reversible encryption (if at all).
"The reason I say Apple users are lefties is because right wing content does not show up reliably on an iPhone. The Telegram App for instance is censored and you can [sic] use Apple for Cryptocurrency."
Damn those perfidious Apple engineers! They've created a chip that can tell when good, wholesome, red blooded, all-American, right-wing bits are being transmitted and are censoring them!
I BET SIRI EVEN TELLS YOU THAT JETFUEL CAN MELT STEEL BEAMS!
I didn't have much money then, so it must have been cheap, and I'm sure it was on the low end of capacity at the time. It was a 3.5" drive, jammed into the A1200, and causing a distinct bulge in the side. Maybe a couple of hundred quid? Probably less though. Many hours of washing up at my local pub anyway.
The Amiga used a custom chip as a disc controller, so a disc drive plugged into a standard IBM PC won't be able to read them.
You have to either use an Amiga, or something like the Kryoflux or Catweasel.
(Kryoflux is more capable, and still available, but the company behind them has some weird licensing issues)
Beneath a Steel Sky on the Amiga came on fifteen (yes, 15!) floppy disks (double-sided, double density, 880K on each).
If you were just playing the game from floppy the swapping was limited to moving between areas, but once I got a harddrive (a whole 800MB!) I wanted to install it, which required me sitting there, patiently swapping in each disk for about 45 mins in total.
Great game though.
Eight floppy drives, that's nothing! How about, sixty four floppy drives, eight harddrives and two flatbed scanners?
The money is used to invest in Indian businesses (ie it doesn't go to the Indian government, and so it didn't pay for their space program, whatever the tabloids might have told you).
The idea is that it creates new markets for the UK to trade into, and thus makes us back more money. I have no idea if it's worked, but our exports to India have increased, so something must be working.
Perhaps when you read the headline in the Express or the Mail, you could have thought to yourself "hmm, these papers have a tendency to whip up xenophobia, possibly they are doing that now, perhaps I should go look at some actual facts".
Or you could just read their shit and wind yourself up, whatever floats your boat I guess.
"The production moved to Scotland for this subsidy"
No, to be fair to Rockstar, they've been based in the UK since they were called DMA Design back in 1984. (Yes the creators of GTA were also the creators of Lemmings). The only move was from Dundee to Edinburgh (and who can fault them for that?).
Hence part of the outcry, they've always been a UK company, making games in the UK, so deliberately moving their money elsewhere is a bit of a kick.
"They paid no corporation tax because they paid the workers"
Incorrect. They paid no corporation tax because they pushed any profits to Take2.
And as other people have noted, they could have paid all their staff very well indeed (and the income tax on those salaries) as well as paying corporation tax, and not claimed for tax relief, and still made a profit.
In fact, GTAV is (still) making them so much money, they could probably have paid twice as much tax (and salaries etc. etc.) and still made a profit.
"Doesn't seem like it should or else you can't carry any printed text when you physically visit those countries."
That would be joined-up thinking.
Back in the day it was illegal to export PGP from the United States, but the source code complied into a book was free to be sent anywhere in the world, where you could type it in and compile it legally.
As much fun as it would be to blame trump, US export restrictions are not exactly a new thing. Check out the problems PGP had for more insight.
So soon Vodafone will have the same owner as Virgin Media?
Liberty Global seem to own, or have shares in, a lot of stuff.
"they've probably all gone into the towns"
Oh they have, I grew up in the countryside and would only occasionally see foxes, and that would always be at least the other side of a field away, and they'd usually scarper as soon as you saw them.
Now I live in a big city, and I see foxes at least once a week, and some of them will walk up within a few meters.
Like rats, foxes are now a semi-domesticated animal.
Foxes choose to live in cities because it's a much better environment for them. There's no 'bins round the back of the kebab shop' for countryside foxes, they actually have to go hunt some food down. It's warmer in cities, there's more places to make dens. In short, humans have created a better environment for foxes than their 'natural habitat', or to put it another way, the city is their natural habitat now.
The OS doesn't make much difference (and the CPU makes even less). This wasn't some elite hacker using some kind of 0day, it was blatantly a user clicking on an attachment, not realising it was malware.
You could have the most secure system in the world, but if you allow a user to choose to run arbitrary binaries, then ransomware will be possible. You don't need to use an obscure CPU bug like meltdown/spectre to access a user's files because (obviously) a user will always have access to their own files.
Sure, a good sysadmin will prevent their users from running random executables, and they should also have a working fucking backup system. But absent a good sysadmin, any OS/CPU in the world won't stop a ransomware attack.
"Cops show up and demand access."
Well, to be fair, he did say "with a warrant", but then if the cops show up with a warrant, they still either have to get you to unlock your front door for them, or they just smash it down.
The 'smash it down' option isn't really there for encrypted files, which just leaves showing up with a warrant and insisting that the user unlocks their own files. The you run into problems with "I forgot my password" etc.
"To be fair, a huge number of houses - including supposedly problematic terraces - have at least one space provided in the form of a garage, either at the bottom of the garden accessible from the "backs" road or a row of lockups near the house."
Round here those have all been converted into more houses (which I still couldn't afford on twice my salary).
We used ours for a little while when there was something wrong with modem mode, and I found that the wifi password had to contain two numbers. One was too few, three was too many, none was right out. It had to be exactly two.
Then we went back to using modem mode with an Asus router with Merlin's firmware and it's been just fine. I think we're on whatever their highest tier is at the moment and it's more than fast enough for a house of four.
"If I go into a bank branch, get a nice paper receipt for the transaction, then if anything goes wrong its definitely banks fault and so no financial loss."
I suspect the bank can afford more lawyers who will argue that your little bit of paper is not legally valid than you can afford lawyers to argue the opposite.
"The point of the software and sensors was to limit the rate of climb so that the pilots didn’t clime too fast and then go in to a stall. (Assuming I understood the details of the problem.)"
Sort of. The main change between the 737, and 737 MAX is the oversized engines, which are really a bit big for their position on the wing. Changing the throttle will push the nose up or down, so the MCAS is there to stop them from pushing the nose up too far and causing a stall (by simply commanding the nose down slightly).
The journalists know that if they print someone's idiotic opinion, they'll get read, so they pick the most ridiculous opinions possible. I'm not going to say they make any up, but I'm sure there's temptation to edit them into the most extreme possible interpretation.
"Political correctness gone mad" is favourite of the tabloids, and even the beeb do it now.
In this case, it's more like rail franchises sharing the same tracks, but running their own trains. They're sharing the physical mast, but adding their own equipment, backhaul etc.
It should lead to a faster roll out which I guess is good for us customers, but if you live somewhere with (eg) no O2 coverage, you can almost guarantee that there's no Vodafone coverage either.
They don't list the prices they charge for support on their website, so, more than you or I could afford. If I had to guess though, I'd say tens of thousands per year?
You're right, but someone sysadmins aren't given a choice about if and when they're allowed to patch.
Mind you, some of the systems that I wasn't allowed to 'alter in any way' would suffer unavoidable reboots occasionally, and when they rebooted strangely they'd be patched. Must have been an error in the UPS or something, certainly wasn't me logging on out-of-hours and hitting that "Update and Reboot" button, oh no.
Did a quick test. On my system (Win10) VLC uses twice as much memory as MPC (at idle, not playing anything), which does make it sound bloated, but that's 9.9MB vs 4.9MB, which on a modern PC is hardly resource hogging is it? Both used about 80-90MB when playing a video. So, both are pretty light on resources by the standards of the last decade or so (I think I'd have to go back pre-2000 to find a computer that I owned with less than 100MB of RAM).
My original problem with MPC (from back when it came out) was that I never understood why someone would want to clone Windows Media Player from the pre-XP days. Otherwise they're pretty similar on features, but I think I'll stick to the one I'm familiar with.
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